Word: remind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remind my lifelong friend and neighbor, Governor Roosevelt, whose country estate on the Hudson, which became his 'farm' overnight, is not mortgaged any more than is my 'farm,' only six miles away [1,700 acres near Staats-burg]?that Herbert Hoover knows the meaning of 'farm mortgage' as few men in high position do. He was born on an Iowa farm. The ominous word 'mortgage' must be among his earliest recollections. It was burned into his memory and he has not forgotten...
...Chicago, to remind himself & others not to overdo on long-distance telephone calls, Vice President John J. Anton of First National Bank bought and installed three-minute sandglasses...
...storage vault for college records there arises a vague satisfaction that at last some definite use has been found for the old gothic pile. For years, Memorial Hall has stood empty and scorned, with only the occasional tramping of feet directed toward examination desks and convention chairs to remind the dusky shades of halcyon days when windows were bright and unpainted, and biscuits whistled through the air of the popular college beanery...
...lately dreamed? married to him, lying in a hospital, dying, dead. But there is nothing mortuary about Phoebe and the two strike up a friendship gradually deepening into love. At the height of her theatrical success. Phoebe suddenly falls ill. Roland is distressed; terrified when details of her illness remind him of his dream...
...only at its end papers, with a sigh. Though dealing with the fairly thoroughly canvassed tragic situation, or lack of situation, of half-breed Negroes in the South, the book tells its story with a ruthless, rare good humor. It is a highly un-saccharine good humor which will remind readers more of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn than of the Peterkin school of writers on Negro themes. And Author Flannagan, without the usual studied accoutrements of a simple style, can write simple conversational English to a turn...